01 Apr 1921
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1921
Page
1
The report details a graft inquiry expansion led by Lomasney to include the Cambridge Tube purchase. The Commission on the Irish question assigns moral responsibility to the British government in a 30,000-word Washington report documenting hearings from November to January.
An earnest appeal for Whipple as counsel follows a bitter attack on ex president McKnight. The report repeats rumors and suggests political maneuvering within the campaign.
In a sharp attack on former Senate president Edwin T. McKnight Brady labeled him a conduit for 1918 Legislature misdeeds. Mattis M. Lomasney forced the rules committee and both houses to widen the inquiry to include the Cambridge subway purchase and other street railway matters in 1919. He urged further amendments to the investigation.
Information from police circles reports Mrs. Rachel Columbo of May street was brutally assaulted and beaten eight days ago by a mysterious hugger while she was taking clothes from the lines in the rear of her home.
Mrs Matilda Rodenhiser age 70 of East Boston will marry her cousin Jason Rodenhiser 56 next week after 2 years of keeping house for him following his first wife’s death 32 years ago. They filed marriage intentions at City Hall yesterday and live at 75 Montmorenci Street.
Athens reports Greek forces captured Avghin and held it against 22 Turkish counter-attacks repulsed by bayonet action. They also say Kovalitza fell after desperate fighting, with strong military works seized.
A man who claimed to be Louis Wolf and aged four years was re arrested by Brookline police after a running exchange of gunfire while escaping from a cop. He allegedly escaped Sing Sing Prison on March 9 and faces a charge of carrying a loaded revolver.
Patrolman Albert A. Strain chased a suspect near Winchester Street and Fuller Street after the man fled his coat and fired on the officer with an automatic pistol. Boston police later identified the coatless man as Louis Wolff, a Sing Sing escapee, while a woman claimed to be Wolff’s wife.
An appropriation committee meeting is set for 2 PM to push a measure barring department heads from hiring non residents and aliens. The panel plans to withhold approval of several departments to pressure compliance.
Edward D. Clark of 9 Bradford Street Boston was pulled from the Charles River near the Harvard bridge last night by George Dunn. Clark admitted delusions and that he leaped to purify his body of diseases and is under observation at Cambridge Municipal Hospital.
James Cardinal Gibbons archbishop of Baltimore was laid to rest in Baltimore at the Cathedral of the Assumption. Prelates diplomats and officials attended the funeral in the rain while thousands gathered outside bareheaded to pay respects. Continued on Page 20-Ist, Column
An unidentified man wearing burning clothes ran through Commercial Street starting a basement fire at 492 six story brick building. Firefighters put out the blaze causing about 50 dollars damage as police search for the torch.
Washington March 31 President Harding opened his examination of the railroad problem by consulting the two government bodies most closely tracking the nation’s postwar transportation readjustment.
President Harding held a long session with Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Clark and Railroad Labor Board Chairman Barton to review detailed carrier earnings, discuss remedies, and consider government ownership as a possible option. Shippers seek lower freight rates while workers oppose wage cuts as consultations with managers and employees are planned.
The House limited consideration on bills to restore pensions for Supreme, Superior and Land Court judges who forfeited pensions when taking raises last year. Senator Gibbs of Waltham plans to press the issue in the Senate. House committee chair Abbott argued Massachusetts pays high salaries with pensions at two thirds, and the adverse committee reports were accepted by voice vote.
Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne held a long conference on the Irish situation with Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, yesterday in Rome.
Frank S. Ramey of Wakefield was found guilty yesterday afternoon of a murderous assault on Mildred Wanamaker in Wakefield last October. The jury returned the verdict at 3:15 after a little over an hour of deliberation. The district attorney is expected to seek a sentence this morning as Middlesex criminal court sessions adjourn.
George Carter announced the verdict as the crowd gasped. Ramey was escorted from the dock dazed to the East Cambridge jail with no sentence announced. Judge Cox outlined the assault and intent to murder charges while District Attorney Tufts condemned the alibi and alleged witnesses for the Commonwealth.
All the school children of West Park will march to John Burroughs funeral next Saturday bearing flowers from the schoolyard. Had he not died last Tuesday, the naturalist would have received the tribute at Riverby on his 84th birthday next Sunday.
A collage notes a lateral raid in Baden near Mulheim and Neuenburg, a year since the New York Assembly executed by five Socialists, the Danish King confronting a general strike with troops in Copenhagen, and new cables opened to Cuill.
Forecasts indicate Friday will be fair and colder in Boston and surrounding areas with clearing and cooler conditions. Saturday looks fair with rising temperatures and fresh northwest winds in the region, while the Atlantic States see a fall in temperatures and winds shifting to the west and northwest.
Forecast indicates a mild day improving from yesterday but turning cooler. Windy conditions are expected to persist, bringing variable, gusty winds across the region.
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